A comparative study of bilingual discourse markers in chicago mexican, puerto rican, and mexirican spanish

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 263-279

  Torres, Lourdes ^a   Potowski, Kim ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Discourse markers; Spanish in the usa

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950696424     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: 17566878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367006908098571     Document Type: Article

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